Definition of "Stonewall"

Stonewall

noun
plural Stonewalls
1. Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”)
  Quotations
  Try one of the inn's specialties from the old days — a Coow Woow (pronounced coo-woo), a 17th-century drink made with ginger brandy and rum on crushed ice; or a Stonewall, which is a century older — gin and applejack over ice cubes.
  1974, Ian Keown, Lovers' guide to America, page 85
  A Stonewall? That's a man's drink, ma'am. It's hard cider—cider wine at about six-and-one-half percent alcohol with rum added. Quite powerful.
  2001, Bert Osterberg, Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes
proper noun
1. (historical) A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar "The Stonewall Inn" resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement.
  Quotations
  Stonewall means fighting back.
  1979 June, Gay Community News
2. A nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
3. (chess) A formation in chess (a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game) in which white plays pawns to d4 and several other positions, requiring black to react energetically (see Stonewall Attack).
4. Any of several places:
  1. A town in Manitoba, Canada.
  2. A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
  3. A town in Louisiana.
  4. A town in Mississippi.
  5. A town in North Carolina.
  6. A town in Oklahoma.
  7. An unincorporated community in Texas.
  8. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.